Rescued Collection (page 2)

RMS Titanic - rescued passengers on deck of Carpathia
RMS Titanic - Underwood and Underwood real photo postcard, Group of Titanic's rescued passengers on deck of the Carpathia. Date: 1912

RMS Titanic - Titanic passengers rescued by Carpathia
RMS Titanic - Hutchinson Archive - first generation image of the passengers on the Hutchinsons table on board the Carpathia, with handwritten notation naming them

Rescue of McClure during Arctic expedition
Rescue of Robert McClure during his unsuccessful Arctic expedition to discover the fate of the Franklin expedition of 1845

Barnardos barefoot Street Arab
A typical Barnardos promotional photograph of a barefoot Street Arab whom the organisation had rescued

Barnardos Waif with suitcase
A typical Barnardos promotional photograph of a waif in rags whom the organisation had rescued

French World War One refugees
Liberation: the freeing of the civil population. Rescued after living for four years in the enemy lines: a party of French refugees being conveyed to safety in Northern France after cessation of

The Yacht Eira in the Arctic, 1881
Engraving showing the yacht Eira, used by Benjamin Leigh Smith, to explore the Arctic region around Franz Joseph Land and the ocean North of Russia, 1881-1882

Bulldog rescued from sinking ship, First World War
When the King Edward is sunk by a mine during the First World War, the crew rescue Norah the bulldog, together with the monkeys and cats they had as pets

Dragging two artillery horses on Western Front by Matania
Dragging two artillery horses from a mud hole on the Western Front to prevent them being nearly drowned in a muddy pool. In the background, a third horse

Moses rescued from the Nile. Engraving
Moses rescued from the Nile by the daughter of Pharaoh of Egypt. Exodus. Chapter 2, Verse 5. Engraving

WW1 - Patriotic Red Cross Dog cocks his leg on German Flag (having rescued a French hat from the likelihood of any accidental indignity)

RAF 22 Squadron Search and Rescue helicopter
A 22 Squadron Royal Air Force Search and Rescue helicopter, based at Thorney Island near Chichester, West Sussex, lands safely

Falling from Skyscraper
Two workmen fall when scaffolding breaks on a New York skyscraper, but they are hauled to safety Date: 1933

Western / Calamity Range
CALAMITY RANGE (Paul Evan Lehmann) The hero, with the bad guys gun in his back, is rescued by the gal from the livery stables. Date: 1930s

Thomas Muir
THOMAS MUIR - Scottish parliamentary reformer, found guilty of sedition, sent to Botany Bay, rescued by Americans, feted as hero in revolutionary France Date: 1765 - 1798

Moses Found in the Nile
As a baby he is abandoned on the Nile but is fortunately rescued by no less than Pharaohs daughter

Burnt Alive 1392
At the court of Charles VI some men are accidentally burnt alive - one jumps into a tub of water, another is rescued by a lady who smothers the flames with her dress Date: 29 January 1392

Goldsmith & Johnson
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Irish writer, rescued by Dr Johnson, when unable to pay the rent, who reads The Vicar of Wakefield and admires it Date: 1730 - 1774

Barnardos Girl Waif
A typical Barnardos promotional photograph of a waif whom the organisation had rescued

Barnardos Boy Waif
A typical Barnardos promotional photograph of a Street Arab whom the organisation had rescued

WW1 - Seaplane crash, 1915
WW1 - A derelict mine-sweeper seaplane seen crashed in the ocean and discovered by a Dutch trawler YN7. Two men row in a small boat towards the aircraft. Date: 1915

Blind Frenchwoman helped from home by British soldiers, WW1
British soldiers helping a blind Frenchwoman out of her house in the village of Masnieres as it was being heavily shelled by the Germans. Date: 1918

Boy scout saves drowning woman, Athens, Greece
A 15-year-old boy scout, Sokrates Haris, jumped into the sea and saved a drowning woman in the port of Volos in the Byron District of Athens, Greece

LFB turntable ladder in action, with rescued person
LFB turntable ladder in action, with a rescued person in a harness. The ladder is being trained away from the building, and a firefighter steadies the man using the tail line

Firefighter in a flying bomb film, WW2
Firefighter in a flying bomb film -- taking a moment to relax after a job well done. Date: 1944

Rescue following flying bomb attack, London, WW2
Rescue following a flying bomb attack -- a man and a woman at basement window, calling for help. (1 of 4) Date: 1944

London Fire Brigade Annual Review demonstration, carrying a rescued man down a ladder during a fire. Date: 1931

Rescue following bombing, WW2
Rescue of civilians by firefighters following bombing during the Blitz. Date: 1940s

Rescue following V2 rocket attack, Manor Park, London, WW2
Rescue of a woman following a V2 rocket attack in Manor Park. Although many rescues took place, hundreds of Londoners died in these attacks, launched in the latter stages of WW2

Lincoln Ellsworth and pilots trans-Antarctica flight
Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, loading supplies into the " Polar Star", before the flight of the 2000 miles from Dundee Island across the Antarctic to the Bay of Whales

Found long missing Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot
American Lincoln Ellsworth and his British colleague and pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon who on 23 November 1935, started from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot making preparations
Lincoln Ellsworth (left) and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (right), his pilot, making preparations for their trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

Pug Peter -- dog carried through air by seagulls
Pug Peter -- Peter rescued from the Deep. A dog is carried through the air by two seagulls. Date: 1905

British soldier with rescued canaries, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier with two rescued canaries in a cage, on the Western Front in France during World War One. The birds were the only living creatures found amongst the ruins. Date: circa 1916

Storm and stress at sea by G. H. Davis
Storm and stress at sea: the two thrilling shipping incidents of the week. Above: how the Snowdon Range was driven hither and thither in her long voyage from Philadelphia across the Atlantic

Flooded Out
A family with two children and their dog wade through flood water in a rural setting. In the background, belongings are being rescued from their home Date: 1880

Shirley Bain-Marais by Madame Yevonde
Shirley Bain-Marais (1921-?) by Madame Yevonde. She was the daughter of Colonel Colin Bain-Marais, South African Minister to France

Heligoland submarine rescue by G. H. Davis
During the naval action off Heligoland in the early part of the First World War, a boats crew is rescued by a British submarine. Date: August 1914

Drama in the North Sea, German raider force down, 1939
A scene out in the North Sea showing the crew of a German flying boat, which had participated in an air attack upon ships of the British fleet waiting to be rescued by a British destroyer having been

Benjamin Leigh Smith
BENJAMIN LEIGH SMITH Aectic explorer in his steam yacht Eira who had to be rescued in 1882. Date: 1828 - 1913

Gilbert Romme
GILBERT ROMME - French maths teacher and revolutionary politician, accused of conspiracy he stabbed himself in prison, though some say he was rescued, fled to Russia. Date: 1750 - 1795

Marguerite Roberval
MARGUERITE ROBERVAL Unfortunate French girl abandoned on an island off Canada coast until rescued 1545 after two years : read full story in source below. Date: CIRCA 1542

France. Third Republic (1901). A French soldier

GENTILESCHI, Orazio Lomi (1565-1638). Moses Rescued from the Nile. Baroque art. Oil on canvas

Horse rescued from basement by NFS breakdown lorry
A horse being led to safety after falling into a basement access area of a building in Spa Road, Bermondsey. An NFS London Region fire brigade breakdown lorry was used to lift it

NFS (London Region) Southall horse rescue, WW2
Firefighters from K2Z Southall fire station area attempting to rescue a horse that fell into a deep, water filled ditch and was unable to get out unaided

Scaling ladder rescue drill demonstration, WW2
The position in which a line is attached to a scaling ladder in order to perform a rescue from the upper floors of a building

Rescue of Major Money off the coast of Yarmouth

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